Dr. Ya'ara Gil-Glazer

Areas of Interest
- Visual culture and critical art education
- Cultural history of photography
Biographical Info
Research
1. Visual culture and critical art education
Visual culture and critical pedagogy
Visual culture, critical pedagogy, and sexuality / visual culture of sexuality and sex education
Photography as an educational tool
2. Cultural history of photography
The history and historiography of photography
Social-documentary photography in the US from the Great Depression to the Cold War
Study of the family photo album as a cultural-historical source
photography and migratio
Teaching
2012 – Photography in Society and Culture: Education towards Critical Reading, Dept. of Education, Education through Art Program (undergraduate).
2012–2014 Visual Culture and Social Revolutions, Dept. of Education, Education through Art Program (undergraduate).
2012– Art and Community: Participation, Empowerment and Social Change, Dept. of Education, Education through Art Program (undergraduate).
2013–2018 Academic Skills, Dept. of Education (undergraduate).
2014–2015 Introduction to Western Art History, Dept. of Multidisciplinary Studies, Art Program (undergraduate).
2015– Seminar: Investigation through the Camera and the Photograph, Dept. of Education, Education through Art Program (undergraduate).
2016– Issues in American Cultural History, Dept. of Multidisciplinary Studies, History and Land of Israel Program (undergraduate).
2016– Visual Culture and Visual Literacy in the Contemporary Era, Dept. of Education, Education through Art Program (undergraduate).
2017– Social-Documentary Photography: Theory and Practice, Dept. of Education (undergraduate).
2018– Visual Culture and Social Movements, Dept. of Education, Education through Art Program (undergraduate).
2018– Pro-seminar: Events in the Political-Social History of the United States, Dept. of Multidisciplinary Studies, History and Land of Israel Program (undergraduate).
2019– The History of Photography as the History of the Modern Era, Dept. of Multidisciplinary Studies, History and Land of Israel Program (undergraduate).
2021– Seminar: Social-Visual Research in Education, Dept. of Education, Education through Art Program (graduate).
2022– Visual Culture and Sexual Education, Dept. of Education, Education through Art Program (undergraduate).
Publications
Books
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2013). The documentary photobook: Social-cultural criticism in the U.S. during the Great Depression and the New Deal. Tel Aviv: Resling.
Articles in refereed journals
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2010). A new kind of history? The challenges of contemporary histories of photography. Journal of Art Historiography, 3 (University of Birmingham), 19 pp.
https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/media_183179_en.pdf (Republished as a book chapter in: Kamila Kuc & Joanna Zylinska (eds.). (2016). Photomediations: A Reader. Open Humanities Press CIC.
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2013). Photo-monologue. Mafte'akh, 7, 121-143. (Publication of Tel Aviv University).
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2014). Family albums as collective memory of community. Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts, 8(1), 65-78. (Accepted for republication as a book chapter in: Kris Belden-Adams & Mary Trent (eds.). 2021. These Are Our Stories’: Global Expressions of “Other” Histories, Narratives, and Identities in Photographic Albums.
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2015). Photography, critical pedagogy, and "difficult knowledge." International Journal of Education Through Art, 11(2), 261-276.
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2017). Visual culture and critical pedagogy: From theory to practice. Critical Studies in Education, 66-85.
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2018). Activist photography pedagogy. Mafte'akh, 12, 125-147. (Publication of Tel Aviv University).
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2019). “To put the camera back in the hands of honest photographers”: The activist pedagogy of the Photo League. Photographies, 12(1), 19-44.
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2019). Photo-monologues and photo-dialogues from the family album. Journal of Peace Education, 16(2), 175-194.
Walter, O., Gil-Glazer, Y., & Eilam, B. (2019). “Photo-words” – Promoting language skills using photographs. Curriculum Journal, 30(3), 2019, pp. 298-321.
Gil-Glazer, Y., Walter, O., & Eilam, B. (2019). PhotoLingo – Development and improvement of higher-order thinking and language skills through photographs. Journal of Education, 199(1), 45-56.
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2019). "We weren't Jewish (we were concerned photographers)": Second-generation Jewish migrants document Black lives in New York. Jewish Culture and History, 20(4), 359-381.
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2019). ״Why did the photographer choose only dark-skinned kids?״: Young student’s reactions to otherness in photographs. International Journal of Education Through Art, 15(3), 309-326.
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2020). Secrets from the family album: Official and silenced knowledge on migration. International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 1, 1-17.
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2021). The photo-monologue: Critical device and political practice. Visual Studies.
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2021). ‘Manly’ and Effeminate, Wretched and Whole: Formulating Gender Identity through Stills and Film. Journal of Visual Literacy 40 (3-4), 189-195.
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2022). Between Sexism and Sexual Liberation: Oz Magazine as Sex Education Agent in Britain in the 1960s-70s. Sexuality and Culture.
Book chapters
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2017). Visual critical pedagogy. In S. Shtang & N. Hazan (Eds.), The anthology of Israeli visual culture (pp. 440-474). Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House.
Gil-Glazer, Y. Inner city solidarity: Black protest in the eyes of the Jewish New York Photo League (2020). In Dogramaci, Hetschold, Lugo, Lee, & Roth (eds.), Arrival cities: Migrating artists and new metropolitan topographies in the 20th century. Leuven University Press.
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2021). Visual critical pedagogy in high school. In C. Persinger & A. Rejaie (Eds.), Socially engaged art history and beyond: Alternative approaches to the theory and practice of art history. Palgrave-Macmillan.
Forthcoming: Gil-Glazer, Y. (2021). The Newhalls: Anti-pictorialists, pro-documentarists. Thinking and Working Together: Couples and the Writing of Art History. Victor Claass, Pascale Cugy, Charlotte Foucher Zarmanian, François-René Martin (eds.)
Book reviews
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2021) [Review of the book Picture Pedagogy: Visual Culture Concepts to Enhance the Curriculum by Duncum, Paul (2020). London: Bloomsbury Academic.] International Journal of Education Through Art.
Gil-Glazer, Y. (2021) [Review of the book Photographs of Childhood and Parenting on Kibbutz by Edna Barromi-Perlman (2020). London: Vallentine Mitchell.] Modern Jewish Studies.